Settler-Tsilhqot'in Relations

After the trials the case was closed -- or was it? The townsfolk and ranchers on the borders of Tsilhqot’in territory found that the impact of the events in the Chilcotin had long-term effects.

The impact was felt on the proposed transportation routes across the Chilcotin Plateau, and it brought a massive debt of $80,000 dollars to the colony which had been too broke to spend a dime to settle treaties with native people. The debt hung over British Columbia and was one of the factors moving British Columbia to accept confederation with Canada in 1871.

Colonial Correspondence

• Alfred Waddington, Letter to the Colonial Secretary of British Columbia, August 29, 1864
• Frederick Seymour, Letter to Rear Admiral Denman, November 14, 1864
• C. Brew, Remarks on Mr. Waddington's Petition, 1865
• John Boles Gaggin, Letter to the Colonial Secretary of British Columbia, February 16, 1865
• Alfred Waddington, Petition to Secretary of State for the Colonies, May 29, 1865

Colonial Dispatches

• John Pollock, Letter to Cardwell, February 6, 1865
• Frederick Seymour, Letter to Cardwell, No. 91, July 7, 1865
• Arthur N. Birch, Letter to Cardwell, No. 122, November 18, 1865
• Edward Cardwell, Letter to Seymour, No. 46, July 22, 1865
• Edward Cardwell, Letter to Seymour, No. 71, September 23, 1865

Miscellaneous

• Alfred Waddington, Excerpts of the Notes Accompanying Mr. Waddington’s Petition, May 29, 1865

Newspaper or Magazine Articles

• The British Columbian, More Indian Troubles Anticipated, The British Columbian, December 7, 1864
• The North Pacific Times, The Chilcoaten Murderers, The North Pacific Times, December 10, 1864
• The North Pacific Times, The Indian and the Law, The North Pacific Times, December 10, 1864
• North Pacific Times, The Williams Lake Petition, North Pacific Times, December 21, 1864